changed oil, filter was only half full!
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MORE INTEL... My motor has 55,000 miles on it.
I am on my 9th oil change. She runs like a CHAMP. Today, I check the oil,,, its OVER FULL! last oil change, at 51,000 my oil filter was less then half full when i pulled it off, and guess what, same thing today! Truck is half quart over fill on the dipstick,, pull off the filter, its a tad below half full. NO worries aye.
I am on my 9th oil change. She runs like a CHAMP. Today, I check the oil,,, its OVER FULL! last oil change, at 51,000 my oil filter was less then half full when i pulled it off, and guess what, same thing today! Truck is half quart over fill on the dipstick,, pull off the filter, its a tad below half full. NO worries aye.
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MORE INTEL... My motor has 55,000 miles on it.
I am on my 9th oil change. She runs like a CHAMP. Today, I check the oil,,, its OVER FULL! last oil change, at 51,000 my oil filter was less then half full when i pulled it off, and guess what, same thing today! Truck is half quart over fill on the dipstick,, pull off the filter, its a tad below half full. NO worries aye.
I am on my 9th oil change. She runs like a CHAMP. Today, I check the oil,,, its OVER FULL! last oil change, at 51,000 my oil filter was less then half full when i pulled it off, and guess what, same thing today! Truck is half quart over fill on the dipstick,, pull off the filter, its a tad below half full. NO worries aye.
As for making oil, well we are pretty sure we all know what that is. Or I guess it could be one of two things, neither is cheap. Either your head gasket is cracked and you are pumping coolant into your oil, or you have a bad injector and you are pumping fuel into your oil. Your used oil analysis will tell you for sure.
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that was a fram filter i believe. Just never had one come out half full before.
As far as overheating,
going up a 10percent grade 20 miles long at midnight, truck was not hot
(200) then a jet sound for a few minutes, pulled over and couldn't tell exactly what it was, figured it was just the fan.
1 hr. Later, a long, slow grade running 70mph temp spiked to 230degrees.
Backed off and kept the throttlebelow 2000rpm the temp constant at 210.
Ran straight through the night and as the day warmed up in s. Dakota, temp was constant at 220 if i kept rpm's below 1900. Pull into a rest stop/fuel and temp would spike to 235, the fan wasn't working but maybe it cooked going up the mountain the night before due to another problem which caused it to overwork?
All this pulling 9000 pounds with high wind resistance.
Yes, new fluid, and flushed well with water.
Last weekend going up the same grade with the gooseneck and draft horses, constant at 210 then suddenly spike to 235. That's with the air conditioner off, and for the rest of the climb we had the heater cranked and kept the temp at 220. Put a cooler 180 thermostat in this week but haven't tested it because threw a u-joint and haven't got to it,
i was told local ranch guys with dmax's have to flush their rad each year or they are overheating hauling up into the bighorn mtn.s don't see why with distilled water they would need to do that. Prbly to cheap to put in distilled water, though that's what's in their budlight
i'm used to my '04 auto pegged straight on 200 while hauling with hardly a deviation no matter what...
As far as overheating,
going up a 10percent grade 20 miles long at midnight, truck was not hot
(200) then a jet sound for a few minutes, pulled over and couldn't tell exactly what it was, figured it was just the fan.
1 hr. Later, a long, slow grade running 70mph temp spiked to 230degrees.
Backed off and kept the throttlebelow 2000rpm the temp constant at 210.
Ran straight through the night and as the day warmed up in s. Dakota, temp was constant at 220 if i kept rpm's below 1900. Pull into a rest stop/fuel and temp would spike to 235, the fan wasn't working but maybe it cooked going up the mountain the night before due to another problem which caused it to overwork?
All this pulling 9000 pounds with high wind resistance.
Yes, new fluid, and flushed well with water.
Last weekend going up the same grade with the gooseneck and draft horses, constant at 210 then suddenly spike to 235. That's with the air conditioner off, and for the rest of the climb we had the heater cranked and kept the temp at 220. Put a cooler 180 thermostat in this week but haven't tested it because threw a u-joint and haven't got to it,
i was told local ranch guys with dmax's have to flush their rad each year or they are overheating hauling up into the bighorn mtn.s don't see why with distilled water they would need to do that. Prbly to cheap to put in distilled water, though that's what's in their budlight
i'm used to my '04 auto pegged straight on 200 while hauling with hardly a deviation no matter what...
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